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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4972504 | Marketing research system and method for obtaining retail data on a real time basis A market research retail sales data collection system and method includes a plurality of cooperating retail stores, each having an in-store device for automatically collecting processing and storing market research data in a substantially totally passive ... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4958284 | Open ended question analysis system and method A method and system for data processing open-ended respondent answers to open-ended questions provides reproducible categorized dynamically variable coding of the open-ended respondent answers to the open-ended questions. The data processor (200) has an u... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4908761 | System for identifying heavy product purchasers who regularly use manufacturers' purchase incentives and predicting consumer promotional behavior response patterns There is provided a system and methodology for identifying the heaviest product purchasers who regularly use coupons and determining their promotional behavior response patterns of which involves initially preparing a list of names and addresses of consum... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4887207 | Automated system for evaluating the sensitivity of inventory costs due to fluctuations in customer demand An automated inventory management system is provided which is easy to use and user friendly to evaluate the impact of customer demand changes on inventory. For a given item, the system automatically defines an inventory model by accessing an engineering p... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4872113 | Credit check scanner data analysis system A system for interrelating scanner data from a supermarket checkout counter with demographic and/or economic data concerning individual customers to generate a demographic and economic analysis of sales with respect to specific supermarket items. Each cus... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4853852 | Means for marketing A marketing tool having portable lap computer for recording a sales call made by a salesman of an employer on a customer. The information of the call is transmitted from the lap computer to a master computer and at the end of the day, the master computer ... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4807177 | Multiple format hand held label printer A multiple format hand held label printer includes a processor, a memory, a keyboard, a thermal printer and an advance mechanism for a tape of successive labels carried on a substrate. The processor reads operator keyboard inputs and formats both machine ... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4796180 | Method of monitoring mail delivery A method of monitoring the delivery of mail pieces by the postal service utilizes a data processor. A batch mailing includes selected mailing pieces to be monitored with each selected mailing piece being identified with a multi-digit number uniquely ident... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4787036 | Student enrollment stabilization system Data processing for an improved student population maintenance system for educational institutions predicts number of students for a target year, costs for target year, revenues for target year, tuition charges for a target year, marginal costs for each s... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4782513 | Voice prompted bar code reading satellite system A bar code reading system with novel features of a centralized station having remote reading satellite stations. Each centralized station has a computer, bar code decoder for decoding bar code information from the satellite stations, and a voice synthesiz... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4779198 | Audience monitoring system Each doorway or passageway between rooms in which a device may be located is fitted with another device which detects motion and the direction of the motion through the passage. Each room is equipped with a signal emitter that is controlled by the motion ... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4771381 | Method and system for effecting sensory evaluation of a smoking product A method and system for effecting sensory evaluation of a smoking product wherein selected smoking parameters are monitored precisely while a smoking product is being smoked ad libitum by a sensory evaluation panelist. The monitored smoking parameters are... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4745549 | Method of and apparatus for optimal scheduling of television programming to maximize customer satisfaction In a method and apparatus for extracting programs suitable for individual subscriber taste from among all available television programs and for editing an individual subscriber television program list, objective data is statistically processed by linear p... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4700295 | System and method for forecasting bank traffic and scheduling work assignments for bank personnel A method and system for forecasting bank traffic and teller utilization and for scheduling work assignments for bank personnel based on the forecasts includes data gathering apparatus and steps and data processing apparatus and steps.... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4649481 | Electronic cash register with means to store and correlate data on a customer by customer basis An electronic cash register of the invention can provide a correlation between sales of items or commodities. The electronic cash register has a PLU code data memory. The PLU code data memory stores PLU code data of items purchased by each customer. In or... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4355372 | Market survey data collection method A method for independently electronically collecting related market survey data from a plurality of diverse locations (6,6') for temporary storage at each of the independent diverse locations (6,6') where the data is collected for subsequent transmission ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4345315 | Customer satisfaction terminal An electronic terminal for electronically collecting opinion data from customers of a service organization as to the satisfaction with the services rendered. The electronic terminal has a keyboard that displays the inquiries with multiple choice responses... | 08/17/1982 |
